After ten years teaching in the English Department at New England's exclusive Enfield College, Professor Karen Pelletier is finally up for tenure. But when her rival for the position is found dead, Karen becomes the police's number one suspect. To complicate matters, political tensions on campus are rising and two of Karen's favorite students get caught up in the furor.

A guide to planning and implementing a literacy professional development course for teachers, sharing information about classroom and adult learning, offering suggestions for implementing an effective professional development system, discussing coaching in the professional development context, and exploring issues in the modern educational environment.

"In this play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of Wit, Vivian Bearing, Ph. D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of the metaphysical poet John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively...

"An exploration of moving away from traditional letter or number grades as an assessment and as a result producing more thoughtful students whose learning is more authentic."--

Offers secondary teachers eighty-two strategic exercises designed to improve students' persuasive writing skills for essay tests, state assessments, and college-entrance exams. Includes writing tips, practice essays, games and activities, a glossary of terms, and over 100 writing prompts.